Ichthyopolis is a 10-minute psychedelic technomation, which delves into a mythical cosmology of fish and their human caretakers.

What if the reality over which you thought you had some control, began to dissolve? Such is the case for the Fish Queen and the Fish Wrangler, who manage their worlds with routine precision untill a disturbance in the order leaves them helpless.

Somewhere between the occult and the absurd lies Ichthyopolis, a universe consisting of two complemetary worlds that can't help but eventually merge.

One of my goals with this project is to consume as few resources as possible in the making of materials for costumes, set, etc. To some extent, this becomes very easy through the implementation of virtual environments, created using the 3-d animation software, Maya (click the bottom right thumbnail in the gallery for an example).

But I also want the film to be filled with organic textures so as to avoid the synthetic and often plasticky look of 3-d animation. And so, I have employed paper bags, old mini-blinds, shells, fossils and LIVE fish in the construction of this film.

But aside from the aesthetic reasons, the use of recycled materials complements my belief that in a world of rapidly dwindling resources, it is necessary to learn to become junk artists.